Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) has recently been linked with maternal use of SSRI drugs, especially Paxil®, during pregnancy. Hypo-, from Greek meaning “less than normal, deficient”[1], and plastic, meaning “forming; growing; changing; developing”[2], hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a birth defect characterized by the underdevelopment of the left heart.
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There are now at least nine lawsuits filed in the federal court in Newark, New Jersey against the manufacturers of Digitek. Not all of the lawsuits were filed by New Jersey residents. Because some of the manufacturers of Digitek are headquartered in New Jersey, injured citizens may sue them in that state. One of the…
Safety Alert: Digitek Recalled in April of 2008
On April 25th of 2008, Actavis Totowa, LLC announced a Class I Recall of Digitek tablets. A Class I Recall occurs when there is an immediate risk of death or injury from a drug or medical device.
In this case, Actavis announced the recall because certain batches…
Until recently, I had never heard of a metal called Gadolinium or a disease called Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. (NSF for short.) But this summer, I spent some time working for a law firm that has been handling a number of cases of people who acquired NSF after having an MRI or an MRA done that…
The crux of the argument that FDA approval of a drug should preempt state lawsuits over that drug is that it should be experts at the FDA who decide whether a drug is safe and what warnings that drug’s label should carry. Implicit in this argument are the assumptions that the FDA has access to…
My name is Justinian Lane, and I’m currently a law student at Michigan State University College of Law. For five years, I’ve blogged about how important the civil justice system is and how it protects everyday citizens. Because of my blogging, I’ve made a lot of good friends who happen to be attorneys. My network…
The deposition of David Chullino, taken in a Duragesic lawsuit, explains that the Duragesic factory was cranking out 4 patches per second… and that only two inspectors were supposed to inspect every one of those patches. That works out to 4 patches per second. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I could…
The attached document is a deposition taken of an ALZA executive in a Duragesic fentanyl patch lawsuit. It explains a great deal about the manufacturing and design of the Duragesic and generic fentanyl patches.
Here is Suneel Gupta’s deposition in the fentanyl lawsuit in PDF format.
The family of Janice Cromar filed a lawsuit in New Jersey against the makers of the Duragesic Patch. This lawsuit alleges that Mrs. Cromar used one of the defective Duragesic patches in recalled lot 0327192:
The lawsuit further alleges that “many hundreds” of people have died each year from leaking Duragesic fentanyl patches. Once all…
In a Duragesic lawsuit filed in December of 2005, the plaintiffs allege that:
Even after being made aware of the numerous defects including those which triggered the recalls, Defendants still failed to take all reasonable and necessary steps to insure that their manufacturing and quality control processes were adequate . As stated in the aforementioned…
